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Terms and Conditions

ClearScore Terms & Conditions

ClearScore provides consumers with free access to their credit report and
credit score. These Terms and Conditions, including our (together the “Terms”)
provide a description of the services which we offer through our website and
set out our obligations to you as a service provider.

The Terms
also place various obligations on you as a user so that we can provide and
protect our website, our services and our brand. In addition, they provide
important information on how we use cookies and collect and use your personal
information, including your credit report and credit score. As our services
are provided at no financial cost to our users, the Terms also describe how we
limit our liability to you with respect to our services and your use of our
website.

Please take the time to read and understand the Terms before you make use of
our services and website. If you do not want to be legally bound by these
Terms in their entirety you must not accept these Terms, in which case you
cannot use our website or our services.

For the avoidance of doubt, please note that the Terms do not affect your
statutory (legal) rights, including any rights that you may have under
applicable consumer laws that cannot be changed by agreement between you and
us.

Introduction

These Terms set out our agreement with you about the use of our services and
our website are legally binding. We recommend that you print or email yourself
a copy of these Terms for your future reference. Details of our services are
set out in the Services section below.

Save as set out in these Terms, your use of our website and the content
and Services which may be accessed through our website is at your own risk.

Whilst we take reasonable steps to ensure that the content of our website is
accurate, current and complete, you acknowledge and agree, to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, that our website and the content and
services available through it are provided on an “as is” and “as available”
basis. In particular, you acknowledge and understand that neither we nor any
of our service providers have any control over the content of the information
provided by credit bureaux.

We do not accept liability for the accuracy or completeness of any website
content or content provided as part of our services. We do not accept
liability for any errors or omissions or for the content becoming out of
date. Certain features of our website will rely on data provided by you in
order to generate output. We recommend that you confirm the accuracy and
completeness of any content before relying on it.

References in these Terms and on our website to “we”, “our” or “us” are
references to ClearScore Proprietary Limited and/or (where the context
permits) our third party service providers together with their subcontractors.
References to “you” and “your” mean each natural or legal person who uses our
website or the associated services.

Information about us

ClearScore Proprietary Limited is authorised as a credit bureau in terms of
the National Credit Act, 2005 (“NCA”) and regulated by the National Credit
Regulator (“NCR”). Our website is wholly operated by ClearScore Proprietary
Limited, which is a subsidiary of Credit Laser Holdings. ClearScore
Proprietary Limited is a private company registered in South Africa in terms
of the Companies Act, 2008 under company number 2017/063916/07. Our registered
business address is at Central Office Park No. 4, 257 Jean Avenue, Centurion,
Gauteng, 0157, South Africa, and our sole director is Mr Justin Simon Mark
Basini.

You can check our registration with the NCR by visiting or by contacting the
NCR on 0860 627 627 (0860 NCR NCR). We will promptly advise you if at any time
our authorisation is removed or suspended.

Your contractual relationship in relation to our website and our services is
at all times with ClearScore Proprietary Limited and not with any of our
affiliates, third party service providers or their subcontractors.

Changes to these terms

We may change these Terms at any time. We will notify you of any such changes
by sending you an email alert, by posting a notice on our website or through
the Services, or in any other manner we deem appropriate. You acknowledge and
understand that your continued use of our website or our services will confirm
your acceptance of the revised terms.

We may update our website and associated services from time to time, and may
change the content at any time. Please note that any of the content on our
website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation
to update it.

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we have
made, as they are binding on you.

ClearScore Services

We are dedicated to helping our users gain more control over their financial
wellbeing by obtaining their credit report and credit score from registered
credit bureaux and providing free access to them. We also use this information
to provide our users with matched offers of third party credit products which
are tailored to their profile and could help them save money.

On your acceptance of these Terms and our acceptance of your registration
application, you engage us as a service provider to provide you with the
following Services:

(a) obtain on a monthly basis on your behalf, as your authorised agent and
representative, copies of your credit report and credit score from a
designated credit bureau registered as such with the NCR in terms of the NCA.
Please note that all costs for the retrieval and presentation of the credit
report and credit score are paid by us;
(b) hold on our systems and make this credit information available to you
through our website. After you register with us, we will take you through an
ID validation process to securely identify you as an individual with a credit
report. Once your identity has been validated, we will then provide you with a
copy of your credit report and credit score. Provided you remain an active
user of our services, we will obtain from a credit bureau registered as such
with the NCR in terms of the NCA an updated copy of your credit report and
credit score on a monthly basis and alert you via email that a new report is
available. If there has been a significant change or addition to information
in your credit score or credit report, we may notify you of that change by
sending you an email alert;
(c) undertake analysis and profiling of your and, where applicable, your
financial associates’ (meaning any person with whom you have a joint financial
account or mortgage, have made a joint credit application or have a joint
court judgment) credit information (and any other information provided by you
or on your behalf) and/or to make tools available to you to do so yourself, to
assist you in being better informed about, understand and manage your credit
position, and in order to identify and inform you of credit products
(including personal loans and credit cards) that are likely to be suited to
your credit circumstances; and
(d) using your credit information and any other data you provide or make
available to us for the purposes set out in these Terms, including our, which
expressly forms part of these Terms.

Certain parts of our Services are supplied to us by our third party service
providers such as credit bureaux. To undertake ID validation and to provide
our Services we need to share information collected from you with our service
providers, as further detailed in our Privacy Policy.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WHEN WE ACCESS AND RETRIEVE INFORMATION FROM
CREDIT BUREAUX WE ARE DOING SO AS YOUR AGENT AND REPRESENTATIVE. YOU AGREE
THAT CREDIT BUREAUX SHALL BE ENTITLED TO RELY ON THE FOREGOING AUTHORISATION
AND AGENCY GRANTED BY YOU.

You will only receive monthly updates to your credit score and credit report
while you remain an active user of our services. You acknowledge and agree
that you will cease to be an active user if you do not log in to your account
for more than 364 days. We will be entitled to stop providing you with monthly
updates and close and delete your account if you do not log in to your account
in any 364 day period. Before we end provision of our Services and our website
and close and delete your account we will send you an email to alert you of
our intention to do so. To resume the service, simply log in to your account
within one month of receipt of the email alert.

We will use third party service providers to identify and provide you with
information of credit products that we consider are relevant to your credit
rating. We aim to present only the economically advantageous products that you
have a strong likelihood of being accepted for based on the merits of the
product and your profile. Any credit product recommended or suggested to you
will be supplied by a credit provider that is registered as such with the NCR
in terms of the NCA.

We do not charge you for the use of our website or our services. However, we
may receive a commission if you purchase a product from a provider or issuer
of credit whose information we have provided to you through advertising on our
website or otherwise. Where possible and applicable we will provide a
description of the basis of the commission that we earn with each product
offer on our website.

Any information provided to you as part of our services is only as accurate,
complete and up to date as the information supplied to us by the credit bureau
or other third party we use to obtain this information. You understand and
acknowledge that we do not check the information we receive from third parties
for accuracy or completeness. We do not assume responsibility for the
timeliness, accuracy, deletion, non-delivery or failure to store any user
information, communications or personalisation settings.

If you have a query or dispute in respect of the Services, please contact us
directly using the details provided in the section Contact Us below. If the
query or dispute relates to any information we have obtained from a credit
bureau or third party service provider, you acknowledge and understand that we
may refer the query or dispute to them if we deem appropriate and you
authorise us to do so.

By using our services, your records and, where applicable, those of your
financial associates will be searched. Searches are carried out as follows:

(a) as part of verifying your identity, we will carry out an authentication
search against your credit information. This search will be carried out once
at the time you register for our Services;
(b) whilst you remain an active user of our services, we will carry out
searches against your credit information on a monthly basis (i.e. a maximum
total of 12 searches in any 12 month period) in order to provide you with your
credit score and credit report; and
(c) we may share your information with third party service providers, such as
credit bureaux, financial services providers and other advertisers, in
accordance with our Privacy Policy and your account’s privacy settings.
Certain third party product and services providers may provide us with their
own services to assess your suitability for particular products. If you would
prefer not to share your information with such third party service providers,
you can opt out of this at any time under your account preferences, by turning
off “Change whether or not we can use quotation searches” in the “ My Account”
section. If you do opt out of this, we will not be able to show you products
that are specifically targeted to you and will only be able to show you
generic advertisements which may be less suited to your financial
circumstances.

The credit bureau will keep a record of each search and place a “footprint” on
your credit file. The types of footprints our searches leave do not affect
your credit rating. They will not be seen by banks and issuers or providers of
credit when you apply for their products and are removed from your credit file
after a year. They are often referred to on your credit report as Quotation
searches for example as ‘personal loan quotation’ or ‘credit card quotation’.

If you choose to apply for a credit product from a product provider by
visiting their site either independently or via our website they may undertake
a credit check that may leave a “footprint” on your credit report. They will
also provide you with the terms & conditions for that product which you
understand and acknowledge are not related to our terms & conditions. You
understand and acknowledge that your application for a credit product
displayed by us is entirely between you and the relevant credit provider and
that your eligibility for that product will at all times be subject to the
relevant provider’s terms and conditions and to all requirements imposed in
terms of the NCA (including but not limited to the carrying out by the
relevant credit provider of an appropriate affordability assessment).

You acknowledge and understand that, in terms of the NCA, ClearScore must
issue a report on you to any person who requires such a report for a
prescribed purpose or for a purpose contemplated under the NCA. These
purposes are:

(a) an investigation into fraud, corruption or
theft, provided that the South African Police Service or any other statutory
enforcement agency conducts such an investigation;(b) fraud detection or
fraud prevention services;(c) considering a candidate for employment in
a position that requires honesty in dealing with cash or finances;
(d) an assessment of the debtors book of a business for the purposes of (i)
the sale of the business or debtors book of that business or (ii) any other
transaction that is dependent upon determining the value of the business or of
the debtors book of the business; (e) setting a limit in respect of the
supply of goods, services or utilities;(f) assessing an application for
insurance;(g) verifying educational qualifications and employment;(h)
obtaining consumer information to distribute unclaimed funds, including
pension funds and insurance claims; (i) tracing a consumer by a credit
provider in respect of a credit agreement entered into between the consumer
and the credit provider; (j) developing a credit scoring system by a
credit provider or credit bureau; and(k) for a credit application by a
credit provider.

In relation to the purposes set out in
subparagraphs (c), (e), (f) and (g) above, you expressly agree and consent
under these Terms to a report being provided by ClearScore for these purposes.

You acknowledge and understand that ClearScore will release or report your
information only to you or to another person:

(a) as permitted or required under the NCA or other legislation to which
ClearScore may be subject;
(b) as directed by you; or
(c) as directed by an order of a court or by the National Consumer Tribunal.

Registering to use our website and our services

Before you can use our services you must register through our website. During
this process you have the opportunity to access, review and receive a copy of
these Terms, including our Privacy Policy, and by registering for an account
you confirm your acceptance of them.

Presenting a credit report and credit score is subject to you passing
appropriate identity authentication for security purposes. Not all users will
successfully pass the identity authentication process. If you fail the
process, you agree that we do not have to notify you of the reasons why you
failed. When you register for our services by accepting these Terms, we may
request personal details to verify your identity. We will use these details
for the purposes of verifying your identity (and to prevent, detect and
prosecute fraud and crime and comply with legal or regulatory requirements).

Accessing our website and our services

Our website and our services are made available free of charge. These Terms
govern your access to and use of our website and the information available on
it, including information you provide and that we collect on your behalf and
facilities and services offered through our website.

You must be at least 18 years of age and a resident in South Africa to use our
website and any services provided through it. You warrant to us (ie promise in a way that you can
be held
legally bound by that promise) that you have the required legal and contractual capacity to
enter into
and
be bound by contractual terms.

You may access and use our website and our services only for your personal use
on your own behalf and not on behalf of anyone else. You must not engage
another person, company, partnership or other entity to access our website or
our services on your behalf. You must not order, or attempt to order, credit
information about anyone else through our website.

When using our website or our services you must comply with the provisions of
our Acceptable Use Policy below. You understand and acknowledge that your
right to access our website or use our services will terminate automatically
if you breach any of the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.

You understand and acknowledge that our website is intended for use by South
African residents only. IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCESS OUR WEBSITE FROM A LOCATION
OUTSIDE OF SOUTH AFRICA, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL LAWS
RELATING TO SUCH ACCESS, INCLUDING VIEWING OR USING THE CONTENT OF OUR
WEBSITE, IF AND TO THE EXTENT LOCAL LAWS ARE APPLICABLE.

We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it or provided as part
of our services, will always be available, uninterrupted or error free. Access
to our website and our Services is permitted on a temporary basis. We reserve
the right to suspend, withdraw or restrict access to our website or our
services, or any part of it or them, at any time for any purpose we deem
reasonable, without notice. This includes where we believe that you have
materially breached these Terms, or if we consider there is or is likely to be
a breach of security.

Whilst we try to keep any disruption to our website and Services to a minimum,
our website and Services may become unavailable from time to time in order for
us to carry out planned and unplanned maintenance and security updates. In the
case of planned maintenance, we will use our reasonable best efforts, where
possible, to provide you with some notice of our intention to suspend the
website or the services before we do so.

We will not be obliged to restore any of your data which may be deleted in the
course of suspending, withdrawing or restricting your access to our website or
our services. You understand and acknowledge that it is your responsibility to
print out and/or save any materials or data which you may require in the
future.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have
access to our website including providing and maintaining any equipment used
to access our website. You are solely responsible for any telecommunications
costs that you incur whilst using our website.

Security

Your right to access our website and our services is personal to you. You must
not allow any other person to have access to your account or our services
using your username or password. You must keep confidential any username,
password or other information you choose, or are provided with, as part of our
security procedures. You must not disclose them to any other person nor keep
them in any form or format that would allow them to be accessed by or on
behalf of another person.

You are responsible for all use of our website and our services when access is
obtained through the use of your username and password, whether or not
authorised. For your security, we recommend that you close all open browsers
relating to our website on completion of your visit. Should you have any
reason to believe that any of your personal or account information has been
compromised or exposed to any other person, either by your own actions or the
actions of others, you must immediately notify us and reset your password.

Acceptable use policy

You may only use our website and our services for lawful purposes. You must
comply with the acceptable use policy set out in this section (the “Acceptable
Use Policy”).

You must not engage, authorise or permit any other person to directly access
your account in order to obtain information provided or made available to you
as part of our services (whether as agent or representative on behalf of, or
as a service provider to, you or otherwise).

You must not, and you must not allow another person to, use our website
(including any content or materials on it) or our services:

(a) in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international
law or regulation;
(b) in any way that is fraudulent, or has any fraudulent purpose or effect
(including by misrepresenting your identity or account information);
(c) to access or interfere with another person’s records, impersonate another
person or create or use a false identity or email address;(d) for your own or another person’s commercial purposes;
(e) to harm or attempt to harm minors in any way;
(f) to transmit any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional
material or any other form of similar solicitation (“spam”);
(g) to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorised access to or interfere with,
damage or disrupt any part of our website, any computer systems, equipment,
software or networks on or through which our website is stored or operated;
(h) to modify, adapt, decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any
of the software comprised in or in any way making up a part of our website or
services provided by our website;
(i) to scrape, reproduce, duplicate, copy, modify, distribute, publish, resell
or transmit any element comprised in our website, including any software
comprised in it, the content or the services provided through it;
(j) to use any technology or processes of any kind to access, acquire, copy,
monitor, navigate or search our website or any portion of it (including the
use of data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools); or
(k) in any way that is not authorised by us or that is detrimental to us or
our third party service providers.

You must not, and you must not allow another person to:

(a) knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that is corrupt
or contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic-bombs, keystroke loggers,
spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code
designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or
hardware or perform any act that would cause our website to become unavailable
for use by others (including via any form of denial-of-service attack);
(b) access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of
our website, any software, the server or other equipment or network used in
the provision of our website (including where owned or used by any third
party).
(c) you undertake to fully co-operate with us where any law enforcement
authorities, regulators or court order requests or directs us to disclose the
identity or locate anyone posting any material or using our website or our
services in breach of this Acceptable Use Policy.

Interactive Services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our website,
including, for example, for you to review and comment on the services and
products that we or product providers or issuers of credit provide.

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information
to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of
moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive
service we provide on our website, and we expressly exclude our liability for
any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user
in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or
not.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with
a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to
our website and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the following standards. The standards apply to each part
of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

(a) be accurate (where they state facts);
(b) be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and
(c) comply with applicable law in South Africa and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

(a) contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
(b) contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
(c) promote sexually explicit material, violence or any illegal activity;
(d) promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality,
disability, sexual orientation or age;
(e) infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
(f) be likely to deceive any person;
(g) be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
(h) be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance,
inconvenience or needless anxiety;
(i) be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
(j) be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or
affiliation with any person;
(k) give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; or
(l) advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act including copyright
infringement or computer misuse.

Consequences of breach of the Acceptable Use Policy

You understand and accept that we may monitor and log user activity, and any
material contributed by users, for security purposes and in order to identify
any actual or potential misuse of our website or our services.

You further understand and accept that failure to comply with our Acceptable
Use Policy constitutes a material breach of these Terms.

If we have reason to believe that you have, or you are likely to, use (or
allow another person to use) our website or our services in breach of our
Acceptable Use Policy, we may take such action as we reasonably deem
appropriate including: immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your
right to use our website or services; immediate, temporary or permanent
removal of any material contributed by you to our website; legal proceedings
against you; and/or disclosure of such information to law enforcement
authorities or regulators, where applicable, as we reasonably consider is
appropriate.

Intellectual property rights

All intellectual property rights in our website, in the material published on
it and in its component systems are owned by, licensed or sub-licensed to us.
All content on our website is subject to copyright with all rights reserved.

Images, trade marks and brands are also protected by intellectual property
laws and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without
permission of their respective owners.

You must not remove any acknowledgement that we or any of our contributors is
the author of any website content or any content we provide to you as part of
the services.

You may download or print content or individual sections or pages of our
website for your personal use and information only, provided that any such
copy has attached to it the relevant proprietary notices and/or
disclaimers. Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through our website
is done at your own discretion and risk and you are solely responsible for any
damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download
of any such material.

You must not modify, adapt, copy, download or post material from our website
nor store any part of our website in any other website or include it in any
public or private electronic retrieval system.

You must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or
any graphics separately from any accompanying text or explanation.

If you print off, copy, download or post to social media any part of our
website in breach of these Terms you must, at our option, return or destroy
any copies of the materials you have made.

Licence

You licence us to use any information, data, materials or other content
(collectively “ Content”) you provide to us through our website or that we
obtain on your behalf as part of the services we provide (such as your credit
information) and you agree that we can use, modify, display, distribute and
create new material using the Content so that we may provide our services to
you and for any other purposes set out in these Terms, including our Privacy
Policy.

By submitting Content you confirm and agree that the owner of that Content has
expressly agreed that, without any particular time limit, and without the
payment of any fees, we may use the Content for the purposes set out in these
Terms.

No reliance on information

The content on our website and any information provided to you as part of our
services is provided for general information only. It is not intended to
amount to advice on which you should rely. We do not control your credit score
or credit report and we cannot change that information for you.

Businesses that carry out credit searches on you collect and maintain
information about you from a number of sources, including but not limited to
credit providers and banks (including details of previous credit applications
and the conduct of your bank accounts) and publicly available sources like
court judgments. They may also form a link between any previous or subsequent
names that you use in the records they hold about you.

Such businesses will use their own criteria in making decisions about you. Any
decisions you make on the basis of your credit score or credit report, or any
other information we provide or make available to you, are purely your own
choice.

Please therefore ensure that you have fully read and understand any relevant
information, such as the credit provider’s terms and conditions, which provide
full details of the risks involved with any decision you make and full details
of the costs involved in binding yourself to and under a credit agreement. You
may wish to consider obtaining professional or specialist advice before
taking, or refraining from taking, any action on the basis of the content on
our website or any other information we provide or make available to you.

Limitation of our liability

PLEASE READ THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION CAREFULLY, AS THEY EXCLUDE OR LIMIT
OUR LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSSES SUFFERED BY YOU IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF
OUR WEBSITE AND OUR SERVICES.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal
injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent
misrepresentation, any duties or liabilities that we owe to you under the NCA
or the rules of the NCR, nor any other liability that cannot be excluded or
limited under applicable law, including applicable consumer laws.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all conditions,
warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our website, any
content on it or services accessed through it, whether express or implied.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we will not be liable to
you or any third party for any loss or damage, whether in contract, delict
(including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if
foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

(a) use of, inability to use or unavailability of, our website (or any part of
it), websites linked to it, or our Services;
(b) any products, data, information or services purchased or obtained or
messages received or transactions entered into, through or from the services
obtained or accessed through our website including use of or reliance on any
content displayed on or made available through our website;
(c) unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; or
(d) any inaccuracy or incompleteness of any information received by you or by
us through our website or as part of our Services.

We shall only be responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a
foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our negligence. Loss or
damage is foreseeable if it is an obvious consequence of our breach or if it
was contemplated by you and us at the time you accepted these Terms.

You acknowledge and understand that we are not responsible for any products
provided by issuers of credit or any other third parties. Those products are
governed by separate terms and conditions of supply and to extensive
requirements in terms of the NCA. You agree that we are not responsible or
liable for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with any
such product, or the terms and conditions applying to any contract (credit
agreement) you enter into with any third party in relation to any product, or
for any acts, omissions, errors or defaults of any third party in connection
with any product or the applicable terms and conditions.

It is your responsibility to seek independent advice or otherwise satisfy
yourself that you wish to apply for, take out, cancel, exchange or request a
change to a credit or other product before doing so.

Where we have indicated your likelihood of success with respect to products
matched to your profile, or where we have provided indications of how much
money you may save, these are provided for information purposes only and
should not be relied upon when making decisions. We do not accept any
liability or provide any guarantee with respects to your eligibility for or
success in obtaining products matched to you or advertised on our website.
You understand and acknowledge that your eligibility for any credit product,
whether suggested by us or not, will at all times be subject to the relevant
third party credit provider’s terms and conditions and to all requirements
imposed in terms of the NCA (including but not limited to the carrying out by
the relevant credit provider of an appropriate affordability assessment to
verify that you are able to afford to take on further debt).

Although we take all reasonable steps to protect our systems using virus
checking software, please note that any content downloaded from our website is
at your own risk. We do not accept liability for any loss or damage that you
suffer as a result of any distributed denial-of-service attacks, computer
viruses, Trojan horses, worms, software bombs or other damaging items
resulting from your use of our website. You are responsible for protecting
your computer systems from exposure to viruses by the use of anti-virus
software, firewalls and any other technical measures necessary.

We do not charge you any fee for access to and use of our website or our
services. On this basis our total aggregate liability for any losses and/or
damage suffered by you will be limited, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, to R1,000.

Linking to our website

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and
legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of
association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our website in any website that is not owned
by you.

Our website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to
any part of our website other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the
content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

Links to other websites and third party resources

Where our website contains links to other websites or resources provided by
third parties, these links are provided for your information only and do not
imply any endorsement by us of the linked website or resources or any related
products or services.

While we do take reasonable care to provide links to reputable websites, you
understand and acknowledge that we have no control over, and accept no
responsibility or liability for, the contents of those websites or resources.
It is your responsibility to check the terms and conditions of any other
websites or resources you may visit and you use them and the products and/or
services made available through them entirely at your own risk.

Duration of our services and termination of this agreement

In the event that you commit a material breach of these Terms, including any
breach of our Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to terminate your
agreement with us and your use of our website or any products or services
contained in or obtained through our website (including the Services)
immediately upon our giving you notice in writing to the email address
provided by you when you registered for your account (or any email address you
subsequently provide).

If you no longer wish to receive our services you can close and delete your
account by visiting the ‘My Account’ section and clicking on ‘Delete Account’.
Please note that once deleted, your account cannot be recovered and you will
not be able to access the credit or other information we hold about you
through our website.

Please note that if you withdraw consent to the processing of your personal
data, access to our website and the services will be suspended or terminated.
We will keep an archived record of your personal data for a period of up to 7
years after termination (unless a longer period is prescribed by law) for the
purposes of responding to legal disputes and legal or regulatory enquiries or
investigations only, but will not use this data for any other purpose.

Privacy and cookies

Our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy form part of these Terms. By using our
website or our services you consent and agree to the processing of your
personal information and our use of cookies in accordance with those policies.

Our address for notices and service of legal process

Our chosen address for the service of any legal notice or process is:

ClearScore Proprietary Limited

Central Office Park No. 4, 257 Jean Avenue, Centurion, Gauteng

0157 South Africa.

General

The headings used in these Terms are for convenience only and shall not affect
their interpretation.

In these Terms, unless specified otherwise, use of the singular includes the
plural, use of any gender is deemed to include every gender and any reference
to a person includes a corporation, a partnership and any other body or
entity, and vice versa.

Use of the words includes or including or similar words or phrases means
without limitation and the use of these or similar words or phrases shall not
limit the meaning of the general words.

We shall not be liable for any delay or failure to provide our services or
perform any obligation under these Terms if the delay or failure is caused by
circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

Each of the provisions of these Terms (or part of any provision) is severable
(ie each provision may be severed or cut from the Terms in order to leave
the remainder of the Terms valid and standing). If any such provision is or becomes illegal,
invalid or unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction that shall not affect the
legality, validity or enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms.
The provision itself shall apply with the minimum modification necessary to
make it legal, valid and enforceable.

Failure or delay by us in enforcing these Terms shall not be a waiver of that
or any other provision of these Terms.

You may not assign any of your rights or obligations under these Terms.

These Terms (including our Privacy and Cookie Policy) constitute the whole
agreement and understanding between you and us in relation to their subject
matter and the use of our website and our services. Except in case of fraud,
all previous agreements, understandings, undertakings, representations,
warranties, promises and arrangements between you and us relating to the
subject matter of these Terms or your use of our website or our services are
superseded, except as otherwise expressly stated in these Terms.

You agree that any notices and other communication may be given by us by email
or posted on our website and this will comply with any legal requirement for
such communications to be in writing. You also expressly agree that any notice
or other communication made in such manner will be deemed to have been
received by you 96 hours after email or posting.

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Disputes and applicable law

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them
or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or
claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with South African
law, without reference to any conflict of laws provisions.